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Eric Gagne, who years ago acknowledged his record-setting performance as a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers was in part fueled by human growth hormone, claims in a forthcoming biography that 80% of his Dodgers teammates also used performance-enhancing drugs.

"I was intimately aware of the clubhouse in which I lived. I would say that 80% of the Dodgers players were consuming them," Gagne said in the French-language memoir, according to ESPN Los Angeles.

While that seems like a startling number, and could be exaggerated, of course, Gagne's Dodgers teams comprised a significant cluster of publicly identified users during the height of baseball's steroid era.

Dodgers catcher Paul Lo Duca, who was traded from Los Angeles to the Florida Marlins in July 2004, was interviewed last week by Major League Baseball officials as part of a probe into Lo Duca's former agents, Seth and Sam Levinson, and whether they helped supply clients with performance-enhancing drugs.

Lo Duca was identified in baseball's 2007 Mitchell Report as a clubhouse linchpin of sorts on a club in which several players, some of them prominent, received performance-enhancing drugs from former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski.

Guillermo Mota, a Dodgers reliever from 2002-2004, later received a pair of suspensions from MLB for testing positive for banned substances, including a 50-game ban this season with the San Francisco Giants.

Gagne achieved cult-hero status in Los Angeles, when he set a major league record by saving 84 consecutive games, inspiring T-shirts emblazoned with the "Game Over" logo. In 2010, three years after the Mitchell Report release, Gagne acknowledged using human growth hormone, and told USA TODAY Sports, "I feel like I let people down."

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